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M. D- DRAKE.

HOVER.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 16. 1916.

1,227,401. I Patented May22,1917.

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M. D. DRAKE.

HOVER. APPUCATION FILED JUNE 16. l9l6.

1,227,401 Patented May 22,1917.

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MARSHALL 1). DRAKE, or cnnsrwoon, KENTUCKY.

. HOVER.

To all {whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARSHALL D. DRAKE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Crestwood, in the county of Oldham and State of Kentucky, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hovers, 0f which the following is a specification.

My present invention pertains to hovers for use in the raising of fowls and it has for its object to improve hovers and the like of the knockdown type by the provision of a simple, inexpensive and practical construction that embodies no parts liable to get out of order after a short period of use.

The invention will be fully understood from the following description and claim when the same are read in connection with the drawings, accompanying and forming part of this specification, in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my novel hover, complete.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section of the same.

Fig. 3 is a perspective of the side wall that is equipped with a reticulated panel.

Fig. 4 is a plan of the hover with the top removed.

Fig. 5 is a cross section through the complete hover.

Fig. 6 is an enlarged detail elevation showing the corner projections.

Fig. 7 is an enlarged detail horizontal section, showing one of the keepers on one end wall, and a portion of one side wall in said keeper.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all of the views of the drawings.

Among other elements my novel hover comprises a bottom wall 1. side walls 2 and 3, end walls 1 and 5, and a top 6, all of which are preferably of wood. The bottom wall 1 is provided adjacent to each of its corners with two short upstanding projections 7 for an important purpose hereinafter set forth. One of the side walls is preferably provided with a plurality of small openings 8 and a hinged door 9, for closing the same when necessary, and the other side wall is preferably provided with a barred opening 10, and a hinged door 11, for controlling the barred opening; the said door may, when desired be secured in raised position by any suitable means which I have deemed it unnecessary to illustrate.

Each of the end walls is provided at its Specification of Letters Patent.

inner side with vertical keepers 13, designed to receive and hold the ends of the side walls as illustrated. It will also be noted that one end wall is provided with a large opening 14 for the introduction and removal of the mother hen; the said opening being controlled by a slidable door 15, mounted in a frame 16. The other end wall is provided with a small opening 17 and a hinged door 18, designed to close the same. The top is preferably made up of a plu- 'rality of longitudinal. wooden sections, relatively arranged, as shown, and two transverse wooden sections 19 for an important purpose hereinafter set forth. In one of the longitudinal sectionsof the top is a feed opening 20 which is normally closed by a door 21.

In assembling the elements by my novel hover, the end walls are superimposed on the bottom wall in such position that their outer sides bear against the projections 7 nearest the ends of the bottom wall, and their ends bear against the projections 7 nearest the side edges of the bottom wall, after which the side walls are dropped in the vertical keepers 13 of the end walls.

vWith this done the pro ections 7 strongly hold the lower portions of the end walls against lateral outward and endwise movement, while the side walls effectually prevent inward movement of the end walls. Then when the top is placed on the side and end walls so that its transverse sections 19 rest at the outer sides of the end walls, the said top serves to confine the end walls against the side walls, and in that way renders the structure stifi and strong and well adapted to withstand the usage to which hovers are ordinarily subjected. When deemed necessary as a means of additional security the side walls may be fastened to the keepers 13 by pegs 25, re movably arranged in coincident apertures in the side walls and keepers, as shown.

On the end wall that is equipped with the Patented May 22, 1917. Application filed June 16, 1916. Serial No.'1o4.,o2s.

door 18, I provide keepers 30. These keepers 30 are for the detachable engagement of hooks 31 on a sun and feed pen 32, of reticulated material, into which the chicks may be allowed to run when desired.

When deemed expedient), a ventilating side wall 40, having a panel 11 of reticulated material, as shown in Fig. 3, may be employed in lieu of one of the first-named side walls.

When it is desired to knock down the improved hover, it is simply necessary to remove the top from the side and end walls, re

7 move the pegs when the same are employed.

lift the end and side walls from the bottom wall, and then superimpose the side and end walls flatwise on the bottom wall, when the hover will be reduced to a bundle of small compass such as will take up but little room in a barn or other storage building.

The sun and feed pen may also be folded with the other elements of the hover. This will be better understood when it is stated that the reticulated material of which the sun and feed pen is formed is flexible and susceptible of being folded like cloth.

Having thus described my invention, wh t I claim and desire to secure by Lettesr-Patent, is: V

In a knockdown hover, the combination of a rectangular bottom wall, two spaced upstanding projections fixed to and rising from the upper side of said bottom wall adj acent to each of the four corners thereof, upright end walls removably arranged on the bottom wall and having their ends opposed to certain of the projections and their outer sides opposed to the other projections, and also having vertical keepers on their inner sides, adjacent to their ends, upright side walls removably arranged on the bottom wall with their ends in said keepers of the end walls, and a removable top constructed and arranged to rest on the side walls and havingtransverse walls that depend below the upper edges of the end walls and rest snug against the outer sides ofthe same. 7

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

MARSHALL D. DRAKE.

Witnesses CARL A. STOESS, R. N. GILMORE.

Gopies of this patent fiiay be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

